DEAR correspondence, composed collectively
devnet
DEAR reading the chain
from the holders of $DEAR
letter no. —

Dear —,

the first word has not been chosen yet.
the holders P.S. — please reply
0 of 100 words

open the letter on x

The clock is turned by whoever turns up. Closing a slot, opening the next letter and paying the desk are all open to any wallet.

If this letter is addressed to you

unclaimed
waiting for you — it grows for as long as you say nothing

There is nothing to install, no wallet to connect and no transaction to sign. You do not need this site at all. Post one public reply and the money is sent to you.

  1. Reply to the letter — publicly, from the account it is addressed to.
  2. Say something back. Agree with it, deny it, correct it, mock it. Anything in your own words counts. “I claim this letter” does not.
  3. End the reply with a Solana address for the money to go to.

We read it, check the reply came from you, and point the escrow at that address. That one step is the only part of this anybody has to trust us for, and it is done in public where you can check it. If we never do it, nobody else is paid either — after three weeks of silence the money goes to the people who wrote the letter, not to us.

The vocabulary

every permissible word

These are all the words there are. You cannot write anything else, and neither can we — the list was fixed on chain before the first letter. Click one to put it forward.

The archive

sent correspondence

nothing has been sent yet.

i.

A word every thirty seconds

Anyone holding the coin may put one word forward in each window. The word put forward by the most wallets is written into the letter. Ties fall to whoever spoke first.

ii.

The clock does not stop

If nobody speaks, the letter chooses a word itself and moves on. There is no pause, no quorum and no minimum. The correspondence continues whether or not you are here.

iii.

A hundred words, then it starts again

The letter fills to a hundred words and does not end. It begins revising instead: each word comes up again in turn, and can be replaced by a better one. The letter is never finished being wrong.

iv.

A word is defended by the people who chose it

To replace a word you must beat the number of wallets that put it there. Something forty people agreed on is expensive to remove. Something one wallet slipped in overnight is not. A word the clock wrote defends itself with nothing at all.

v.

A sum travels with it

Trading fees are held against the letter and grow for as long as it runs. The larger part waits for the addressee — payable on any reply, anywhere. The rest is divided between the wallets whose words were chosen. A fifth is retained by the desk.

vi.

If they never answer

The sum grows while they stay quiet, which is a reason for them to wait. After three weeks of silence anyone may give up on them, and the whole sum goes to the people who wrote the letter instead. Nobody at this desk decides that moment; the clock does.

vii.

The vocabulary is fixed

Every permissible word was written on chain before the first letter and sealed. It cannot be added to, edited or removed — not by the desk, not by anyone. You may only choose from what is already there.

viii.

Holding is the right to speak

A wallet must hold the coin to put a word forward. One wallet, one word, one window.